Glare-protector.



M. J. FITZGERALD.

GLARE PROTECTOR. APPLICATION HLmsEP. 21. 1915.-

Patented June 5, 1917 he L d'. FITZGERALD, 0F RICOND, CALIFORNIA.

@LE-PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June" 5,i thi 7.,

Application led September 27, 1915. v Serial No. 52,83%.

To all wltom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, MICHAEL J'. FirzeERALD, a citizen of the United States, residond, in the county osta and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Glare- Protectors, of which the following is a specication.

Persons driving automobiles or street cars and meeting another automobile or street car at night time experience great diiculty in looking ahead owing to the glare of the concentrated rays from the head light of the approaching automobile or car.

It has heretofore been attempted to overcome this difficulty by attaching an opaque screen to the wind shield of the automobile. cases, as in street cars, for instance, such a device can not be used at all, and with automobiles, it requires shieldshould be lowered below the face of the driver in order may be used. It was therefore necessa the driver either to for endure the inconvenience of not being protected from the wind or rain, if he wished to be protected from the glare of an approaching li ht, or to endure the inconvenience of not eing protected from said glare, if he wished to be protected from the weather. former inconvenience is greater and more continuous than the latter, the consequence was that the glare protector was little, if ever, used.

ne object of the present invention is to provide a glare protector which can be used, not only on autom shield with a free edge, but also on those which have an entirely closed glass front, and also on street cars, and, when the automobile has an open wind shield, can also be used without taking down the upper portion of the wind shield, and behind or in front of the lower por-tion thereof, and with a wind shield which is at or above the level of the face of the driver. Y

further object of the invention is to provide such a glare protector of very cheap and simple construction, and which, after being attached to the wind shield, can be adjusted to various positions to accommodate itself to the line of of the vehicle, and furth w ich will shield.

in the accompanying drawing,

ermore, one edge .of be as close as possible to the wind Figure 1 mainder of the glare protector vision of the driver is a broken rear view of a wind shield show- ,ing my improved glare protector attached thereto; Fig. 2 is a broken vertical section of the saine on the line 2-2 of Fig.

shield shown in section;

Wind shield of ordinary construction. 2

indicates the main portion of glare protector lluloid or material.

to orce it entirely through said hole 3 in easily Sired position, so as to adjust the tector to the line of vision of the t e vehicle..

A further improvement consists in viding means whereby the edge of the lare protector is in contact with the glass o the wind shield. This I may do in several ways, of which I here show three. @ne way is to secure to the glare protector, by rivets 7, a metal holder 8 h which the shank of the suction formed as to press the g are protector against the glass of the wind shield. In another form of the invention, shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the metal holder is dispensed with and the glare protector is so shaped that it lits closely around the suction cup. he cavity is here shown as being coeXtensive with the suction cup, the rebeing Hat. In Fig. 5 the whole of the glare protector is concave to the Wind shield and the edge of the glare protector is in contact with the wind shield throughout its whole extent.

The mode of use of the device and the advantages thereof will be apparent from the foregoing description.

l. in combination, a glare protector having a hole eccentric thereto, and a rubber suction cup provided with means extending glare prodriver of procup extends, edge of the g. eo

be turned upon the shank to any de.

a rubber suction cup.

cally located round hole through which said shank extends, and an apertured through which said shank also extends an pressing the edge of the glare protector against said surface. v

In testimony vvhereo1 I have hereunto set In hand in the presence of two subscribing 20 witnesses.

MICHAEL J. FrrZGERALD.

Witnesses:

F. M. WRIGHT, D. B. RIG i in. 

